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On my arrival in Columbus, Ohio, in connection with the speaking tour through Ohio and the Middle West, I was astonished to learn from my friend Hon. W. W. Durbin, of Columbus, the Chairman of the Ohio Democratic State Executive Committee, that a negro journal, the Toledo Pioneer, (copy of which is enclosed) is urging race equality and urging the negroes to unite at the polls.

This, of course, strikes at the very heart of White Supremacy, and it is current knowledge here in the Middle West that if Senator Harding and the Republicans triumph, an effort will be made to pass a Force Bill, which will mean Federal bayonets to supervise Southern elections.

Senator Harding's recent speech to the negroes at Marion, Ohio, has greatly encouraged them in this, so much so that William M. Trottor, colored editor of the Boston Guardian in his recent address on "A Christian Government" before the negro Baptist convention at Memorial Hall, said:

"It is an abuse to teach the black American he is too low down to dare have trouble with a white man and got court trial; Too inferior to have authority over or with white men in government; too interior to have a hotel room, to have a shave, to have a theater seat or a meal in a restaurant where other people get those accommodations. "Such abuses and seperations deny the Christian principles of equality and brotherhood and the oneness of the white and black races."

This Presidential election means everything to the South and I urge you as a high-minded and splendid representative of your great commonwealth to become active in explaining to your people just what Senator Harding's triumph would

Letter to Governor James B. A. Robertson, 1920 September 16, from Governor Charles H. Brough, Arkansas, Senator Harding's presidential election, the Republican party rallying the black vote, and the damage it would cause for the south.

On my arrival in Columbus, Ohio, in connection with the speaking tour through Ohio and the Middle West, I was astonished to learn from my friend Hon. W. W. Durbin, of Columbus, the Chairman of the Ohio Democratic State Executive Committee, that a negro journal, the Toledo Pioneer, (copy of which is enclosed) is urging race equality and urging the negroes to unite at the polls.

This, of course, strikes at the very heart of White Supremacy, and it is current knowledge here in the Middle West that if Senator Harding and the Republicans triumph, an effort will be made to pass a Force Bill, which will mean Federal bayonets to supervise Southern elections.

Senator Harding's recent speech to the negroes at Marion, Ohio, has greatly encouraged them in this, so much so that William M. Trottor, colored editor of the Boston Guardian in his recent address on "A Christian Government" before the negro Baptist convention at Memorial Hall, said:

"It is an abuse to teach the black American he is too low down to dare have trouble with a white man and got court trial; Too inferior to have authority over or with white men in government; too interior to have a hotel room, to have a shave, to have a theater seat or a meal in a restaurant where other people get those accommodations. "Such abuses and seperations deny the Christian principles of equality and brotherhood and the oneness of the white and black races."

This Presidential election means everything to the South and I urge you as a high-minded and splendid representative of your great commonwealth to become active in explaining to your people just what Senator Harding's triumph would